From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/20289 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "John Cooper" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: MIME handling for common MS Windows attachments? Date: 14 Jan 1999 11:53:21 +0000 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <13980.49570.552112.474836@amenardo.corpemea.baynetworks.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035158606 16950 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:03:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:03:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA03575 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 07:01:34 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id GAB15297; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 06:01:03 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 14 Jan 1999 06:01:09 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA11590 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 06:01:00 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from ironside.ansa.co.uk (ironside.ansa.co.uk [192.5.254.44]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA03566 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 07:00:53 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from TENDLE.ansa.co.uk ([192.5.254.137]) by ironside.ansa.co.uk (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with ESMTP id AAA118; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 12:00:49 +0000 Original-To: Robert Pluim In-Reply-To: Robert Pluim's message of "Wed, 13 Jan 1999 16:54:10 +0100 (CET)" Original-Lines: 34 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070069 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.69) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:20289 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:20289 Robert Pluim writes: > >>>>> "Hrvoje" == Hrvoje Niksic writes: > > Hrvoje> Stainless Steel Rat writes: > >> "JC" == John Cooper writes: > >> > JC> By default pGnus doesn't seem to offer to attempt external > JC> display of common Microsoft attachments, e.g., MS Word (MIME > JC> type application/msword), excel, powerpoint, etc. > >> > >> That would more or less be because that is the way RMS wants it > >> to be. Supporting non-free software out of the box goes > >> against the philosophy of the FSF. > > Hrvoje> I still think relieving users by defaulting ms-word to MS > Hrvoje> Word viewers, etc., might be useful, even if strictly > Hrvoje> against FSF's philosophy. > > How about defaulting to running "start" on Mickeysoft platforms, which will > generally Do The Right Thing, and will allow users to change things > without having to mess with mailcap files ? (but have mailcap be > preferred, obviously). I'm currently able to send application/msword attachments to Word; however, I also get a lot of Word attachments from Outlook users with a MIME type application/octet-stream, which I now manually save to disk and then invoke `cmd /c start' on them from a zsh shell window. How easy would it be to add a new "MIME part" menu option "Save and start...", which calls "start" (or "cmd /c start") on the saved file? This would make launching attachments in NT Emacs much more convenient. --- John